Pasztor, Janos; Harrison, Nicholas (2021): Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Governing Climate‐altering Approaches’. In Glob Policy 12 (S1), pp. 5–7. DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12943.
„This special issue presents new insights relating to the governance of climate‐altering approaches together with possible ways to address knowledge and governance gaps in future.“
Jinnah, Sikina; Morrow, David; Nicholson, Simon (2021): Splitting Climate Engineering Governance: How Problem Structure Shapes Institutional Design. In Glob Policy 12 (S1), pp. 8–19. DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12900.
„This article adds conceptual discipline to a well‐rehearsed but largely intuitive argument within the climate engineering community that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) should be treated separately – ‘split’ rather than ‘lumped’ – in policy discussions.“
Mace, M. J.; Fyson, Claire L.; Schaeffer, Michiel; Hare, William L. (2021): Large‐Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal to Meet the 1.5°C Limit: Key Governance Gaps, Challenges and Priority Responses. In Glob Policy 12 (S1), pp. 67–81. DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12921.
„This paper considers governance challenges that arise from the need to rely on CDR to meet the Paris Agreement’s long‐term temperature goal.“
Galán-Martín, Ángel; Vázquez, Daniel; Cobo, Selene; Dowell, Niall Mac; Caballero, José; Gosalbez, Gonzalo Guillen (2021): The consequences of inaction on carbon dioxide removal. Preprint. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-422173/v1.
„Here, we investigate the still poorly understood implications of delaying CDR actions, focusing on integrating direct air capture and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (DACCS and BECCS) into the European Union power mix.“
Sovacool, Benjamin K. (2021): Reckless or righteous? Reviewing the sociotechnical benefits and risks of climate change geoengineering. In Energy Strategy Reviews 35, p. 100656. DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2021.100656.
„[T]his study reviews and summarizes a large number of geoengineering assessments published over the past decade to document prospective benefits, but also reveal potential risks. It aims to provide a comprehensive evidence base on GGR and SRM technologies that is rigorous, timely, and interdisciplinary.“
Duan, Hongbo; Zhou, Sheng; Jiang, Kejun; Bertram, Christoph; Harmsen, Mathijs; Kriegler, Elmar et al. (2021): Assessing China’s efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit. In Science (New York, N.Y.) 372 (6540), pp. 378–385. DOI: 10.1126/science.aba8767.
„By conducting a multimodel study, we find that the 1.5°C-consistent goal would require China to reduce its carbon emissions and energy consumption by more than 90 and 39%, respectively, compared with the “no policy” case.“
Grassi, Giacomo; Stehfest, Elke; Rogelj, Joeri; van Vuuren, Detlef; Cescatti, Alessandro; House, Jo et al. (2021): Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress. In Nat. Clim. Chang. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01033-6.
„Here we present a ‘Rosetta stone’ adjustment to translate IAMs’ land-use mitigation pathways to estimates more comparable with GHG inventories.“
„In advance of Earth Day 2021, I reached out to Holly Buck, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at UB College of Arts and Sciences. I wanted to know if she had some suggestions pertaining to ways that we could all get behind Earth Day. „
„The little-noticed remark came during a finance session of President Biden’s big Earth Day climate summit.“
„Earlier this week, ExxonMobil, a company among the largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions and a longtime leader in the corporate fight against climate change regulations, called for a massive $100 billion project (backed in part by the government) to sequester hundreds of millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide in geologic formations off the Gulf of Mexico.“
